Because they care
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Yes.PurpleThrobber said:creepycoug said:
The first truly AMERICAN words I've seen written on this shit bored in weeks.MisterEm said:
Get over it for fuck's sake...PurpleThrobber said:
You hit on a MAJOR pet peeve of The Throbber.MikeDamone said:
Funny story - I was talking to a public school teacher who was telling me the issues with the inner city schools. She has kids in private elementary school. I suggested vouchers were the answer so the inner city kids could attend the same schools as her kids. She came up with tons of reasons why it wouldn’t work. Transportation problems, too far from home, blah blah. I said, yeah, best to keep out the riff raff. She didn’t have much to say.. Cool story bro, but the truth is the people who care so much about the inner city kids, don’t want them within several miles of their kids.WestlinnDuck said:
This last election featured dem politicians arguing how we needed more money for education and it was all about the children. Of course, they could care less about the children but they care deeply about the power and the money of the teacher’s unions. Of course, we have spent hundreds of billions in additional “education” dollars and the result is no improvement in actual education, if not a deterioration in educational prowess.
So, the Portland Public school district has general fund revenue of $706 million. It has 49,000 students. It spends $14,400 per student on education. Jesuit High School is the leading Catholic high school in the Portland area. It spends $17,750 to educate each student. The Lady of the Lake Catholic school in Lake Oswego (Portland’s wealthiest suburb) spends 10,000 to educate each of its grades 1-8 students. Obviously, it takes more money to educate a high schooler than a first grader. So, call per student spending even.
Catholic school teachers generally make less than public school teachers, especially when benefits are added – PERS and near 100% medical coverage.
Leftards would poke their eyes out with a spoon before they would consider a voucher program that lets an inner city Portland school kid attend Jesuit. Because they care. So much.
I can't tell you how many principals and high-level administrators (all making $150K+cadillac bennies) who send their kids to private schools. Pisses me off to no end.
If you're a Ford dealer, you don't drive a fucking Chevy.
Same thing with the so-called "christians" who send their kids to private school for religious reasons. Jesus went to be with the sinners not the priests. Go forth and witness, motherfuckers. Hypocritical bastards - all of them.
The only ones who are honest are the parents who send their kids to private schools because of kick ass athletic programs and say that's the reason.
I went to shitty public shools in Oakland and S. Sa. Francisco as a mixed race kid. I get the struggle.
Wife went to rich schools in Bellevue.
We chose to live in Denver proper for my work, but send the kids to school in Golden...for obvious reasons.
Fast forward a few years...wife now is working a high-level admin job for impoverished schools and charters in Denver/Aurora area.
By your logic @PurpleThrobber, we should pull them out of their posh schools and place them in the failing districts in Denver?
Fuck that.
You don't limit your children's academic environment to make a point for your "district or school."
You do it for your kids if you have the means.
Period. End of story.
The new communists are here.
Throbber, stick to perversion, T&A and weird sexual comments. That's your sweet spot (hi?).
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Nein Nein Neincreepycoug said:
Yes.PurpleThrobber said:creepycoug said:
The first truly AMERICAN words I've seen written on this shit bored in weeks.MisterEm said:
Get over it for fuck's sake...PurpleThrobber said:
You hit on a MAJOR pet peeve of The Throbber.MikeDamone said:
Funny story - I was talking to a public school teacher who was telling me the issues with the inner city schools. She has kids in private elementary school. I suggested vouchers were the answer so the inner city kids could attend the same schools as her kids. She came up with tons of reasons why it wouldn’t work. Transportation problems, too far from home, blah blah. I said, yeah, best to keep out the riff raff. She didn’t have much to say.. Cool story bro, but the truth is the people who care so much about the inner city kids, don’t want them within several miles of their kids.WestlinnDuck said:
This last election featured dem politicians arguing how we needed more money for education and it was all about the children. Of course, they could care less about the children but they care deeply about the power and the money of the teacher’s unions. Of course, we have spent hundreds of billions in additional “education” dollars and the result is no improvement in actual education, if not a deterioration in educational prowess.
So, the Portland Public school district has general fund revenue of $706 million. It has 49,000 students. It spends $14,400 per student on education. Jesuit High School is the leading Catholic high school in the Portland area. It spends $17,750 to educate each student. The Lady of the Lake Catholic school in Lake Oswego (Portland’s wealthiest suburb) spends 10,000 to educate each of its grades 1-8 students. Obviously, it takes more money to educate a high schooler than a first grader. So, call per student spending even.
Catholic school teachers generally make less than public school teachers, especially when benefits are added – PERS and near 100% medical coverage.
Leftards would poke their eyes out with a spoon before they would consider a voucher program that lets an inner city Portland school kid attend Jesuit. Because they care. So much.
I can't tell you how many principals and high-level administrators (all making $150K+cadillac bennies) who send their kids to private schools. Pisses me off to no end.
If you're a Ford dealer, you don't drive a fucking Chevy.
Same thing with the so-called "christians" who send their kids to private school for religious reasons. Jesus went to be with the sinners not the priests. Go forth and witness, motherfuckers. Hypocritical bastards - all of them.
The only ones who are honest are the parents who send their kids to private schools because of kick ass athletic programs and say that's the reason.
I went to shitty public shools in Oakland and S. Sa. Francisco as a mixed race kid. I get the struggle.
Wife went to rich schools in Bellevue.
We chose to live in Denver proper for my work, but send the kids to school in Golden...for obvious reasons.
Fast forward a few years...wife now is working a high-level admin job for impoverished schools and charters in Denver/Aurora area.
By your logic @PurpleThrobber, we should pull them out of their posh schools and place them in the failing districts in Denver?
Fuck that.
You don't limit your children's academic environment to make a point for your "district or school."
You do it for your kids if you have the means.
Period. End of story.
The new communists are here.
Throbber, stick to perversion, T&A and weird sexual comments. That's your sweet spot (hi?).
No.
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Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD.
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Right about now is when you're supposed to come up with a good T&A pic to remind me why I like you.PurpleThrobber said:
Nein Nein Neincreepycoug said:
Yes.PurpleThrobber said:creepycoug said:
The first truly AMERICAN words I've seen written on this shit bored in weeks.MisterEm said:
Get over it for fuck's sake...PurpleThrobber said:
You hit on a MAJOR pet peeve of The Throbber.MikeDamone said:
Funny story - I was talking to a public school teacher who was telling me the issues with the inner city schools. She has kids in private elementary school. I suggested vouchers were the answer so the inner city kids could attend the same schools as her kids. She came up with tons of reasons why it wouldn’t work. Transportation problems, too far from home, blah blah. I said, yeah, best to keep out the riff raff. She didn’t have much to say.. Cool story bro, but the truth is the people who care so much about the inner city kids, don’t want them within several miles of their kids.WestlinnDuck said:
This last election featured dem politicians arguing how we needed more money for education and it was all about the children. Of course, they could care less about the children but they care deeply about the power and the money of the teacher’s unions. Of course, we have spent hundreds of billions in additional “education” dollars and the result is no improvement in actual education, if not a deterioration in educational prowess.
So, the Portland Public school district has general fund revenue of $706 million. It has 49,000 students. It spends $14,400 per student on education. Jesuit High School is the leading Catholic high school in the Portland area. It spends $17,750 to educate each student. The Lady of the Lake Catholic school in Lake Oswego (Portland’s wealthiest suburb) spends 10,000 to educate each of its grades 1-8 students. Obviously, it takes more money to educate a high schooler than a first grader. So, call per student spending even.
Catholic school teachers generally make less than public school teachers, especially when benefits are added – PERS and near 100% medical coverage.
Leftards would poke their eyes out with a spoon before they would consider a voucher program that lets an inner city Portland school kid attend Jesuit. Because they care. So much.
I can't tell you how many principals and high-level administrators (all making $150K+cadillac bennies) who send their kids to private schools. Pisses me off to no end.
If you're a Ford dealer, you don't drive a fucking Chevy.
Same thing with the so-called "christians" who send their kids to private school for religious reasons. Jesus went to be with the sinners not the priests. Go forth and witness, motherfuckers. Hypocritical bastards - all of them.
The only ones who are honest are the parents who send their kids to private schools because of kick ass athletic programs and say that's the reason.
I went to shitty public shools in Oakland and S. Sa. Francisco as a mixed race kid. I get the struggle.
Wife went to rich schools in Bellevue.
We chose to live in Denver proper for my work, but send the kids to school in Golden...for obvious reasons.
Fast forward a few years...wife now is working a high-level admin job for impoverished schools and charters in Denver/Aurora area.
By your logic @PurpleThrobber, we should pull them out of their posh schools and place them in the failing districts in Denver?
Fuck that.
You don't limit your children's academic environment to make a point for your "district or school."
You do it for your kids if you have the means.
Period. End of story.
The new communists are here.
Throbber, stick to perversion, T&A and weird sexual comments. That's your sweet spot (hi?).
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You are the left hand king or so I've heard.creepycoug said:
Understood.Sledog said:
Phongrish. You are the english Nazi. Me I finger my ass and smell it and type with my left hand.creepycoug said:
Was that English? Or are you expressing your dumb fuck'ness again?Sledog said:
I've heard write a bit of full auto fire and done quite a bit myself. Two different cyclic rates means two guns to me. Prove me wrong.RedRocket said:
Same guy that the 2 Vegas shooters were working for?Sledog said:
He was probably working for your boss.2001400ex said:
Best part is I got both Bob and sledog to defend the pipe bomb dude today.RaceBannon said:Pipe bombs man. Pipe bombs
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Criminy.Sledog said:
You are the left hand king or so I've heard.creepycoug said:
Understood.Sledog said:
Phongrish. You are the english Nazi. Me I finger my ass and smell it and type with my left hand.creepycoug said:
Was that English? Or are you expressing your dumb fuck'ness again?Sledog said:
I've heard write a bit of full auto fire and done quite a bit myself. Two different cyclic rates means two guns to me. Prove me wrong.RedRocket said:
Same guy that the 2 Vegas shooters were working for?Sledog said:
He was probably working for your boss.2001400ex said:
Best part is I got both Bob and sledog to defend the pipe bomb dude today.RaceBannon said:Pipe bombs man. Pipe bombs
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I knew you’d enjoy it.BennyBeaver said:
Hilarious.MikeDamone said:
Funny story - Arizona has some of the highest ranked schools in the nation. They are all charter schools. Arizona also is one of the lowest in teacher pay. I’m not saying the two are related, don’t twist. I just find it chinterestingPitchfork51 said:It just depends where you live.
Some places everyone sends their kids to private school.
Usually those places have lots of black people.
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This a perfect example that the number 1 factor in educating a kid and determining their success in life is their parents. I’m sure you agree. Case closed.MisterEm said:
Get over it for fuck's sake...PurpleThrobber said:
You hit on a MAJOR pet peeve of The Throbber.MikeDamone said:
Funny story - I was talking to a public school teacher who was telling me the issues with the inner city schools. She has kids in private elementary school. I suggested vouchers were the answer so the inner city kids could attend the same schools as her kids. She came up with tons of reasons why it wouldn’t work. Transportation problems, too far from home, blah blah. I said, yeah, best to keep out the riff raff. She didn’t have much to say.. Cool story bro, but the truth is the people who care so much about the inner city kids, don’t want them within several miles of their kids.WestlinnDuck said:
This last election featured dem politicians arguing how we needed more money for education and it was all about the children. Of course, they could care less about the children but they care deeply about the power and the money of the teacher’s unions. Of course, we have spent hundreds of billions in additional “education” dollars and the result is no improvement in actual education, if not a deterioration in educational prowess.
So, the Portland Public school district has general fund revenue of $706 million. It has 49,000 students. It spends $14,400 per student on education. Jesuit High School is the leading Catholic high school in the Portland area. It spends $17,750 to educate each student. The Lady of the Lake Catholic school in Lake Oswego (Portland’s wealthiest suburb) spends 10,000 to educate each of its grades 1-8 students. Obviously, it takes more money to educate a high schooler than a first grader. So, call per student spending even.
Catholic school teachers generally make less than public school teachers, especially when benefits are added – PERS and near 100% medical coverage.
Leftards would poke their eyes out with a spoon before they would consider a voucher program that lets an inner city Portland school kid attend Jesuit. Because they care. So much.
I can't tell you how many principals and high-level administrators (all making $150K+cadillac bennies) who send their kids to private schools. Pisses me off to no end.
If you're a Ford dealer, you don't drive a fucking Chevy.
Same thing with the so-called "christians" who send their kids to private school for religious reasons. Jesus went to be with the sinners not the priests. Go forth and witness, motherfuckers. Hypocritical bastards - all of them.
The only ones who are honest are the parents who send their kids to private schools because of kick ass athletic programs and say that's the reason.
I went to shitty public shools in Oakland and S. Sa. Francisco as a mixed race kid. I get the struggle.
Wife went to rich schools in Bellevue.
We chose to live in Denver proper for my work, but send the kids to school in Golden...for obvious reasons.
Fast forward a few years...wife now is working a high-level admin job for impoverished schools and charters in Denver/Aurora area.
By your logic @PurpleThrobber, we should pull them out of their posh schools and place them in the failing districts in Denver?
Fuck that.
You don't limit your children's academic environment to make a point for your "district or school."
You do it for your kids if you have the means.
Period. End of story. -
TL:DR version: It’s parents.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
but vouchers!MikeDamone said:
TL:DR version: It’s parents.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
Because I’m pro choice. Parents should have the right to choose. And it shouldn’t be limited by their income or neighborhood. Why is that so terrifying for the left?creepycoug said:
but vouchers!MikeDamone said:
TL:DR version: It’s parents.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
No vouchers for Lakeside but if they want you, you'll be able to afford it. Their financial aid spend is huge. With a 5% acceptance rate for 5th fucking grade.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
This thread was started by a duck import and is quite a lively discussion
Don't be afraid of those who are different from you -
You're welcome.RaceBannon said:This thread was started by a duck import and is quite a lively discussion
Don't be afraid of those who are different from you -
Great advice kunt. Take it, and cut loose that little legion of dumb fucks who just echo what you've already read from the playbook because you like hearing it.RaceBannon said:This thread was started by a duck import and is quite a lively discussion
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Fuck off hondocreepycoug said:
Great advice kunt. Take it, and cut loose that little legion of dumb fucks who just echo what you've already read from the playbook because you like hearing it.RaceBannon said:This thread was started by a duck import and is quite a lively discussion
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Yes. But they'll only "want you" if you play a sport and / or help them color the place up a bit, because other than Asians it's lily white. Otherwise, they're interested in 'full pay'.BennyBeaver said:
No vouchers for Lakeside but if they want you, you'll be able to afford it. Their financial aid spend is huge. With a 5% acceptance rate for 5th fucking grade.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD.
This plays out at elite colleges almost exactly the same way.
It helps on the margin to be full pay at all but a small handful of schools, who have so much fucking money they don't have to care about anything. -
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Both of my girls did Running Start at BHS, and both are fully prepared for college. We chose our house based on the school district and have held off on moving until my youngest is off to college. The taxes though...creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
Sounds like you wanna go with the legion of dumbfucks. Fine. Just trying to help. Say hi to emotional mike for me. You two are cute.RaceBannon said:
Fuck off hondocreepycoug said:
Great advice kunt. Take it, and cut loose that little legion of dumb fucks who just echo what you've already read from the playbook because you like hearing it.RaceBannon said:This thread was started by a duck import and is quite a lively discussion
Don't be afraid of those who are different from you -
Huh?
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@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will. -
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will. -
We're going to keep a place here ... there are few places I'd rather be than the PNW in late spring, summer and early to mid fall.USMChawk said:
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will.
But we are working on the winter palace as we speak. I want to be already gone from this place a month ago this time of year. -
I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker. -
Yeah but I'm hearing he can't hang in the tugdflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker. -
I had to chuckle. My brother went to OIy schools and was a national merit scholar and went to Columbia then Berkeley. His list of accomplishments stop there though. He went into constructiondflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker.
I skipped all the bullshit and went into construction. I wanted to be a lawyer but 6 years of college wasn't happening. Lawyers suck anyway -
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Yes. But they'll only "want you" if you play a sport and / or help them color the place up a bit, because other than Asians it's lily white. Otherwise, they're interested in 'full pay'.BennyBeaver said:
No vouchers for Lakeside but if they want you, you'll be able to afford it. Their financial aid spend is huge. With a 5% acceptance rate for 5th fucking grade.creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD.
This plays out at elite colleges almost exactly the same way.
It helps on the margin to be full pay at all but a small handful of schools, who have so much fucking money they don't have to care about anything.
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Feel better having that off your chest? Damn!creepycoug said:
Dude, they send them to the most elite and expensive PREP schools in the country. Sidwell Friends is like $50k a year and your kids would never get through the entrance exam even if you did whore your mom out for the tuition.WestlinnDuck said:How much does it cost to educate a Down's Syndrome kid? I know advanced physics and math do cost more. You have to be a clueless moron or a liar to figure out the disparity in a quality private school education program from a public school system. Discipline requirements alone are worth it. Wonder why all the dems in Washington DC send their kids to private school? Because it is just the same? Why would a parent want to send their kid to a public school that can't discipline the kids. A dysfunctional class room is okay as long as they are indoctrinating the kids to vote dem?
There are as many vouchers there as there are at Lakeside, which is to say, zero.
Speaking of that, let's zero in on what you're talking about. If you're talking about the run-of-the-mill parochial school, they are mediocre and a good many fall short of even a decent suburban public high school.
I have lived this life, both as a student and as a parent. If anything, the kids at St. Brendan tend to show up to BHS, WHS and IHS less prepared for the high-end advanced classes that each of those schools offer. IHS, in particular, pulls kids into their IB curriculum who would otherwise be looking at University Prep, Lakeside or Bush. And that's no shit.
Garfield ... and now Roosevelt are schools that the professional class in Seattle sends their kids to in droves, and those kids go on, in droves, to the tippy top elite colleges in the country. There are also kids at each of the aforementioned schools who are going to trade school, beauty school and the greatest of social program, the military. Girls with stupid parents will get knocked up and not get an abortion, and kids will OD. -
In all fairness, people like your brother will be found anywhere. I knew a dude from North River who got plucked up by Cal Tech on a full ride.dflea said:I wonder how Shelton public schools measure up. That's where we went because that's where you go when you're from Shelton.
It didn't hold my older brother back. He got full rides at UW, MIT, and the Max Planck Inst. He was on Hans Dehmelt's team at UW that won the Nobel prize for making an atomic clock out of a barium ion suspended in a laser trap. The team he was on at MPI also won the Nobel prize in physics, but I can't remember what they did to get it.
I also went to Shelton public schools and UW, but I'd rather fish, hunt, drink beer, smoke weed and talk shit than go to Stockholm for some gay ass prize ceremony.
I blame the public schools and my parents for my shortcomings, of course. I also blame my brother for being a cock and setting the bar high so my lack of effort would be more noticeable. Fucker.
That guy, and your brother, are the 1/1000th percenters. Malcolm Gladwell has written books about people like your brother.
Weatherwax has had a few too. Not in my class. That's for fucking sure.
I think the main thing is, does the high school have a good selection of the tuffer courses. Is there a good AP curriculum? Are the teachers capable of teaching it? If you have IB you essentially have a free prep school within a school.
Fuck when I was at Aberdeen you had to go to GHC to take calculus if you got that far. Didn't have it at the HS. I'm sure that's changed.
You can get anywhere from anywhere. But you're better served if you can take a tuff course load; helps you get into and through college.
Sorry about your smart brother being smarter than you. I'm sure your life has been Tuff.
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I’ll spend July and August here but October - April can get fucked. I’m already tired of the rain, the darkness, and the traffic. Usually we go to Hawaii or California for mid-winter break and get some much needed sunshine but this year we’re going to London instead. It’s going to be a looooong winter.creepycoug said:
We're going to keep a place here ... there are few places I'd rather be than the PNW in late spring, summer and early to mid fall.USMChawk said:
On this we agree (and a few other things). I’m already on my 10 years to retirement plan and will be moving to Phoenix in the next year or two. After that Snohomish County can do what they want.creepycoug said:@USMChawk
Sounds like we agree.
Yes, as you know, I know.
And if you don't like your taxes now, wait until South Snohomish County becomes North King County, and it will.
But we are working on the winter palace as we speak. I want to be already gone from this place a month ago this time of year.
